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Julie Wright

Julie joined Datatrial in 2010 and has been instrumental in planning, developing and implementing commercial strategies based on company goals to support and accelerate growth.

Julie has been actively involved in developing relations with external partners locally and nationally including UKTI, NECC and the CBI thus offering the company a voice within the business community.

Julie has over a decade of commercial experience working within multination, blue-chip companies driving sales and generating revenue. With a background in Lean Six Sigma, Julie is process focused with her sight firmly set on successful outcomes and efficiency.

Julie holds a BSc degree in Sociology after studying with the Open University and has been a member of the peer membership group Vistage, where she has gained valuable skills which have been translated into the overall strategy for the business.

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Will Donkin

Will works as a Senior Lead Developer in our Research and Development department. Will works closely with the other developers in the team to ensure requirements are translated into high quality code and ultimately useable functionality for our customers.

Will believes the best way to develop software is the breakdown of requirements into small implementable packages of work. This forces developers to communicate about the requirement before the implementation, everybody in the team can get involved to share their existing code base experience and contribute solution ideas. This open discussion enables all developers in the team to grow regardless of their experience level and everyone feels responsibility towards the product they are building. Will is an advocate of pair programming and mentoring which he believes is the best way to grow a developer’s confidence, self-belief and enable them in time to become more self-reliant. Will understands the importance of repeatable automated integration and deployments of software releases and is always looking to improve processes to make the development lifecycle a smoother journey.

Will has 15 years’ experience of working as a Software developer having started out as a graduate developer working up to becoming a developer, a senior developer and a development lead. Will has worked on web, mobile and desktop bespoke software implementations for a wide array of clients form start-ups to multinational organisations.

Will has a desire to keep improving Datatrial and their product suite. In order to achieve this we will always listen to our customer with an open dialogue about future implementation to ensure we develop features that bring them the most benefit in their day-to-day workflow using our software.

Will has passed Microsoft MCP exams and attended Microsoft training days as well as a number of independent developer conferences.

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Matthew Weaver

Matthew, as Customer Experience Manager, supports the Business Development function to increase awareness of Datatrial and the services we provide. He is the direct contact for Datatrial customers and responsible for product demos, user training and customer on-boarding as well as working with our R&D team to manage any internal and external product feedback.

Matthew believes customer engagement is paramount to ensuring that software is fully adopted and embraced to become invaluable within any organisation.

Matthew has previous Customer Success experience working for NBS, providers of specification software to architects, surveyors and manufacturers. Establishing key milestones, setting the customer journey, training a team of 4/5 and expanding services to existing customers. Prior to that he worked at Sage in their technical support team for e-commerce, card and POS machines.

Matthew has an MA in Cultural Management from the University of Northumbria

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Kyle Setzer

Kyle has over a decade of deep and diverse sales experience across a range of disciplines within the pharmaceutical and life sciences industry, including pharmaceutical and medical device, clinical research, and specialty pharmacy. Most recently, Kyle served as a Senior Account Executive (Oncology) for Accredo Specialty Pharmacy, where he transformed his territory into a top ranking, President’s Club contender. Propelled by his passion for strong partnerships, Kyle believes in a consultative sales approach and open communication to not just meet his accounts’ goals, but exceed them.

Kyle was born and raised in New Jersey, and he currently resides there with his wife, Tara. On the weekends, you can find him enjoying a round of golf or cheering on Rutgers University, his alma mater, at a football or basketball game.

Kyle has a BS in Exercise Science & Sports Studies from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

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Darren Churchill

Darren has been with Datatrial since its inception and has been instrumental in the progression of the company by ensuring that products and services meet the needs of customers.

Working in close collaboration with customers and utilising his depth of experience in delivering EDC studies, Darren ensures that each and every study solution is tailored to the customer's individual needs.

Darren believes that the best way to work is through collaboration and information-sharing. This approach ensures that customers are not only kept informed of progress, but that they also have a pivotal role to play in the design of their own EDC solution. Therefore, maintaining effective communication and positive relationships with customers is key to Darren's working philosophy. As Study Delivery Lead, this is an approach that Darren has embedded within the working practices of the Study Delivery team.

Working closely with colleagues right across the business is something Darren is keenly focussed on. Ensuring that customer feedback and responses are carefully considered and ultimately utilised to drive the continuous improvement of our software and processes is something that he is passionate about. Darren was born and raised in the north-east of England but since relocating to the south-west with his family he now has to follow Newcastle United from afar. Darren enjoys a good book, game or TV show and spending time with family and friends at the weekends.

As well as over 20 years’ experience in study delivery, Darren holds a BSc in Mathematics from Northumbria University and a Certificate of Engineering Mathematics from Newcastle University.

Steven Hindmarsh

Steven has 30 years commercial experience analysing business requirements and implementing computerised systems, 22 years of which as a software developer building multi-tier web applications.

Steven started as an electrical engineer installing and maintaining hardware and software and providing training and support. During this time he developed a flair for writing software to manage his day and has never looked back, developing a plethora of software for various web development companies, including medical trials websites, and spending the last 10 years in-house with WSP, an engineering consultancy. Along with his team he developed such things as document management software for engineering design collaboration, supply chain and personnel management to name a few.

Steven credits his development success with utilising Domain Driven Design techniques. Interacting with and understanding the business domain to produce software where, not only the development team can easily understand and manage the source code, but where the end user is already familiar with the terms and processes presented to them - It’s what they do every day anyway!

Steven is a fan of keeping abreast of and incorporating the latest software frameworks. More importantly, he believes the biggest wins are in advocating for the latest software development management techniques such as ‘DevOps’. Modern techniques only work where there is buy-in from all stakeholders involved in designing, producing and using our products.

Steven has a BSc Open University Degree studying object-oriented application design and implementation alongside systems practice, to understand and manage soft & hard complexity and is working towards Microsoft Azure Accreditations.